After thirty years of mostly disappointments and defeats, 2017 has been a banner year for advancing free market policies across the board on energy, climate, and environmental issues. We at CEI are proud to have...

The alternate currency known as Bitcoin has had a wild week, and its dramatic rise in value has meant that many Americans are hearing and learning about it for the first time.

The increase has been so dramatic, however, it has also caused many observers to express skepticism about the sustainability of these gains, generating comparisons, for example, to the legendary price bubble for Dutch tulip bulbs in the 17th Century. As the Los Angeles Times colunist and...

Yesterday, a U.S. District Court in San Francisco ordered Bitcoin service provider Coinbase to comply with a dramatically scaled-back Internal Revenue Service summons for user information. CEI participated in the case by filing an amicus brief urging the court to...

There’s a theory that the Internal Revenue Service hit top U.S. digital currency firm Coinbase with a massive subpoena for user records last year because the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration had issued a report highlighting the agency’s lacking ...

Yesterday, pursuant to the Congressional Review Act (CRA), the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution to overturn the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s arbitration regulation. Passage by the House was the first step in the CRA process to...